"Kou Haitao, you told us to follow the rules and not cross your bottom line, but now you're blatantly helping Qi Yuan cheat. What are you trying to do?" Pei Zongyan asked coldly.
"Cheat?"
Hearing Pei Zongyan's accusation, Sun Jia and Kou Haitao were both stunned.
Sun Jia subconsciously glanced at Qi Yuan. He only felt that the Tesseract in Qi Yuan's hand was flickering at a much faster speed compared to Qing's, but he did not detect any abnormalities.
Kou Haitao was a Tier 4 Mechanic who had passed the Walker's Trial, and Pei Zongyan had accused him of cheating without any evidence. Was he crazy?
Kou Haitao's expression also became very ugly. He had insisted on remaining neutral because he did not want to be dragged into this mess. However, if Pei Zongyan accused him of helping Qi Yuan cheat, the situation would be different.
That would be a slap to Ke Shoulin and Feng Qian's faces, and their anger would instantly crush him.
Pei Zongyan suddenly rejoiced that he hadn't chased away the wastelanders. He'd allowed them to become witnesses to the test.
"Shut up!"
Seeing Pei Zongyan's angry expression and about to say something, Kou Haitao shouted. The powerful aura of a Tier 4 Mechanic instantly exploded and pressed down on Pei Zongyan.
Pei Zongyan's face instantly paled, and all his anger was forced back by this terrifying aura.
"All the procedures of today's test were witnessed, and their energy cubes were also messed up by each other. There was no cheating at all.
"I'll write a detailed report of all the procedures of the test. I don't care why you suddenly went crazy, but if you want to accuse me of helping Qi Yuan cheat, you better have solid evidence. Otherwise, I'll let you know what price you have to pay for framing me!"
Kou Haitao's expression was dark. If he was not afraid of Ke Shoulin and Feng Qian, he would have restrained Pei Zongyan after what he said.
Kou Haitao originally thought that his warning would make Pei Zongyan behave, but he did not expect Pei Zongyan's expression to become even angrier.
"Evidence!
What other evidence do you want?
Turn around and look at the Tesseract in Qi Yuan's hand. How long has it been? He has already restored half of the energy nodes. At this rate, he might not even need an hour to restore the Tier 2 Tesseract! "
"Even second-level researchers can't restore a second-order Tesseract in under an hour. How can a third-order wastelander do it?"
"You're cheating so blatantly, yet you're asking me for evidence. Kou Haitao, do you really think we're fools?"
Faced with Pei Zongyan's furious accusation, Kou Haitao was initially furious. However, his expression slowly turned to one of astonishment. This was because he had also seen the Rubik's Cube in Qi Yuan's hand.
The messy colors were obviously much more orderly now. Even though he wasn't very familiar with the Tesseract, he could tell at a glance that Qi Yuan's recovery speed was much faster than Qing's. There were only about half of the messy colors left.
According to this speed, Qi Yuan could indeed complete the restoration of the Tesseract within an hour.
A third-order wastelander restoring a second-order Tesseract in under an hour?
Even Kou Haitao, who wasn't very familiar with the Tesseract, knew that this was impossible.
So Qi Yuan really cheated under my nose?
No!
Impossible!
But before this, Qi Yuan had never touched the Tesseract. Before the test, Qing had messed up the order. How did Qi Yuan cheat?
Could it be that Qi Yuan's Tesseract had been tampered with?
It was too difficult to cheat with the Tesseract in the test. Only by tampering with the Tesseract would there be a chance.
The Tesseract was something I personally picked out from the Tesseract Energy Tesseract used for the Level 2 Researcher advancement test. These Tesseract Energy Tesseracts would be checked regularly. Who would be able to tamper with the Tesseract Energy Tesseract in Qi Yuan's hands without anyone noticing?
Kou Haitao, who was puzzled, finally realized that the only person who could have tampered with the Tesseract and helped Qi Yuan cheat was himself.
He had selected the Tesseract himself!
Before the test started, he was the only one who had touched the Tesseract!
He was the only one who had the chance to tamper with it!
So, was it really me who helped Qi Yuan cheat?
Kou Haitao was also shocked by his own logic.
If the Tesseract had been selected by Sun Jia, Kou Haitao would have suspected him of cheating. But this had happened to him, so he didn't know how to explain it.
Qi Yuan was still fully focused on restoring the Rubik's Energy Cube, and was not disturbed by the quarrel between the two. Instead, the multicolored light flashed even faster, and the mottled colors were visibly becoming more orderly.
Qing, who was dizzy from the numerous energy nodes, was distracted by the quarrel. He subconsciously glanced at the Tesseract in Qi Yuan's hand. His movements suddenly stiffened, and he stopped what he was doing. He stared blankly at the Tesseract in Qi Yuan's hand.
The large areas of the same color made him unable to shift his gaze away.
The Tesseract in Qi Yuan's hand had already been restored by half?
How long had it been? The mechanical clock showed that less than twenty minutes had passed!
So, in less than twenty minutes, Qi Yuan could complete the restoration of the energy matrix in his hand?
But, how was that possible?
Qi Yuan was only a level 3 wasteland vagabond!
The Tesseract in his hand wasn't a first-order Tesseract, but a second-order one. And, I was the one who personally messed up the order!
So, was there a problem with the Tesseract?
Was Kou Haitao really brazenly helping Qi Yuan cheat?
Qing's eyes became sharp. If even Kou Haitao, the chief examiner, began to help Qi Yuan cheat, then what was the point of his task?
How could Kou Haitao be so crazy?
Could he have been bribed by Tanqiu?
Qing stopped looking at the Tesseract in Qi Yuan's hand. He suddenly felt that his efforts had all become meaningless.
Sun Jia also looked at the Tesseract in Qi Yuan's hand with a strange expression. He secretly swallowed his saliva.
What benefits did Tanqiu promise Kou Haitao that could make this bad-tempered and stubborn rock open his eyes and help Qi Yuan cheat?
But, wasn't it too obvious that he was cheating?
If Qi Yuan could really restore a second-order Tesseract in forty minutes, even a fool would know that there was a problem.
After returning, as long as they checked the Tesseract in Qi Yuan's hand, there would be conclusive evidence that he was cheating!
Couldn't you be more subtle when you cheated?
As long as it wasn't so obvious, Tanqiu could think of a way to cover it up.
Cheating so obviously, wasn't it just looking for trouble?
What was in Kou Haitao's mind?
Did he really not know the consequences of doing so?
Once cheating was confirmed, not only would Kou Haitao be in big trouble, Qi Yuan would also be in big trouble. Even Tanqiu would be implicated!
Did Kou Haitao do it on purpose?
He wanted to use this method to drag Tanqiu down?
Sun Jia suddenly had some doubts.
For a moment, he couldn't figure out whether Kou Haitao was an enemy or an ally.